Biography: Barbara

Birth Name: Monique Andrée Serf

Birth Date: June 9, 1930

Birth Place: 17th arrondissement of Paris, France

Monique Andrée Serf (9 June 1930 – 24 November 1997), known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky, a native of Odessa, Russian Empire (current-day Ukraine). Barbara became a famous cabaretière in the late 1950s in Paris, known as La Chante...